Haditha (Iraq)
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| Coordinates | 34 ° 8 ' N , 42 ° 23' E | ||
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 Iraq
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| Governorate | al-Anbar | ||
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| height | 107 m | ||
| Residents | 90,000 | ||
Haditha ( Arabic حديثة Hadītha , DMG Ḥadīṯa ) is a city in the province of al-Anbar in northwest Iraq with around 90,000 inhabitants. The Haditha district of the same namesurrounds the city. The city is located about 240 km northwest of Baghdad .
The Haditha Dam is located near Haditha .
history
Haditha was captured by US-led forces in April 2003. Since then, the city has developed into a center of Iraqi resistance.
In November 2005, members of the US Marine Corps killed 24 residents in the city in the Haditha massacre . They are said to have concealed the act afterwards, saying that the Pentagon had offered the victims' relatives up to 2500 dollars in compensation. The then US President Bush promised to clarify the situation and classified the allegation as a further "serious mistake" alongside the Abu Ghraib torture scandal .
On the morning of March 5, 2012, about fifty gunmen attacked a number of police checkpoints, killing 27 police officers and injuring three. An attacker was also killed. On March 14, the Islamic State organization affiliated with al-Qaeda admitted to the crime in Iraq .
In a series of attacks on September 24, 2013, attackers in Haditha killed nine police officers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Attack on checkpoints in Iraq: 27 dead. In: ORF . March 5, 2012, Retrieved March 5, 2012 .
- ^ Nour Merza and Ben Harding: Islamists claim Iraq attack that killed at least 27. Reuters, March 16, 2012, accessed October 1, 2013 .
- ↑ Kamal Naama, Suadad al-Salhy, Alison Williams: Militants kill nine policemen in bomb and rocket assault in Iraq. Reuters, September 24, 2013, accessed October 1, 2013 .